Students' extracurricular research, or "TDK" has a long and glorious past at the IEAS of the University of Debrecen. This is the highest level of undergraduate and graduate scholarship. Both the student and his/her supervisor work in their free time to help the student write a research paper well above the standards of ordinary seminar essays. These papers compete at the biannual national conference (OTDK). The best writings are awarded and are also often published in academic journals. Participation at the OTDK is a major advantage at PhD entrance examinations.
Organised in every second year, recently in 16 sections of the National Conference of Scientific Students’ Associations (OTDK) – with the support of the Ministry of Education and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, as well as the moral and financial assistance of other relevant ministries and national bodies, is a scientific gathering during which the most outstanding scientific papers of the best university and college students are evaluated by boards of renowned Hungarian scientists and professors.
- otdk.hu
- UD IEAS OTDK Facebook group
- IEAS TDK-coordinators:
UniDeb Faculty of Humanities TDK 2024 spring
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Debrecen is organizing the student researcher conference (TDK) in 2024 spring.
Date: May 2-3, 2024
Registration deadline: April 8, 2024
Register by writing an email to Eszter Ureczky (literature, culture, history) or Péter Szűcs ((applied) linguistics, language pedagogy), with your name, research topic, supervisor, training programme, year and Neptun-code.
Participation options:
I. Category: Submission of a written essay (minimum 10000 characters) AND giving a presentation, both of which will be evaluated orally and in writing by a jury, with scores.
II. Category: Only by giving a presentation, which will be orally evaluated by a jury.
III. Category: Section for high school students, with participation through both written and oral mediums or only orally.
Programme
See more details in this document (in Hungarian), or contact IEAS TDK-coordinators Eszter Ureczky or Péter Szűcs.
37th OTDK
The section of humanities of the national student researcher conference is going to be organized by the University of Szeged in 2025 spring.
- General announcement (in Hungarian)
- Announcement for the section of humanities (in Hungarian)
OTDK-results at IEAS
| Name | Year | Section | Result | Supervisor |
| Törzsök Réka | 2023 | English literature | 2 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Urbán Éva | 2023 | English literature | 3 | Dr. Szathmári Judit |
| Benke Anikó Fruzsina | 2021 | English literature | 1 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Kuszinger Rebeka | 2021 | Visual culture | 2 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Ozsváth Eszter | 2021 | Visual culture | 1 | Dr. Moise Gabriella |
| Szirák Anna | 2021 | English literature | 1 | Dr. Ureczky Eszter |
| Szávó Andrea | 2021 | English linguistics | 2 | Dr. Kardos Éva |
| Sándor Kamilla Lilla | 2021 | General, descriptive and generative linguistics | 3 | Dr. Rákosi György, Virovec Viktória |
| Balogh Iván | 2019 | American culture and history | 3 | Dr. Szathmári Judit |
| Krisztán Daniella | 2019 | Contemporary British literature | 2 | Dr. Moise Gabriella |
| Malou Kürpick | 2019 | Contemporary British literature | 1 | Dr. Moise Gabriella |
| Szabó Zoltán | 2019 | Aesthetics and film studies | 2 | Dr. Győri Zsolt |
| Ware Anna ✝ | 2019 | English linguistics and applied linguistics | 1 | Dr. Kardos Éva |
| Szávó Andrea | 2019 | English linguistics and applied linguistics | 2 | Dr. Kardos Éva |
| Virovec Viktória | 2019 | Sociolinguistics, dialectology | 2 | Dr. Rákosi György |
| Bajnay Flóra | 2017 | English literature from the turn of the century | 1 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Bodrogi Dóra | 2017 | English literature from the turn of the century | 2 | Ureczky Eszter |
| Szenes Marianna | 2017 | English literature from the turn of the century | 3 | Dr. Gula Marianna, Dr. Séllei Nóra |
| Virovec Viktória | 2017 | General and Hungarian linguistics | 3 | Dr. Rákosi György |
| Erdei Orsolya Ágnes | 2015 | American and Canadian literature and culture | 3 | Dr. Németh Lenke |
| Balogh Eszter Edit | 2013 | English literature and culture | 2 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Baranyi Gyula Barnabás | 2013 | Visual culture | 2 | Dr. Csató Péter |
| Bozsó Georgina | 2013 | English literature and culture | 2 | Dr. Séllei Nóra |
| Fagyal József Szabolcs | 2013 | English literature and culture | 1 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Jurth Réka | 2013 | Syntax, generative linguistics | 1 | Dr. Rákosi György |
| Kárai Dániel | 2013 |
Pedagogical effects of socialization environments
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1 | Dr. Csépes Ildikó |
| Sárközy Gergely | 2013 | English literature and culture | 3 | Dr. Glant Tibor |
| Seifert Péter | 2013 | English literature and culture | 3 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Szilágyi Gusztáv | 2013 | English literature and culture | 2 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Kovács Enikő | 2011 | Linguistics | 1 | Dr. Rákosi György |
| Lődár Erika | 2011 | Linguistics | 3 | Dr. Rákosi György |
| Szabó Orsolya Zsuzsanna | 2009 | English drama and visual culture | 2 | Dr. Séllei Nóra |
| Szeifert Ágnes | 2009 | English poetry and prose | 3 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Ureczky Eszter | 2009 | English poetry and prose | 1 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Őry Katinka | 2007 | Literary theory | 2 | Dr. Oláh Szabolcs |
| Gergely Nikoletta | 2005 | 19-20th century English prose | 3 | Dr. Séllei Nóra |
| Kárai Attila | 2005 | American literature and culture | 2 | Dr. Abádi-Nagy Zoltán |
| Nagy Nóra | 2005 | 19-20th century English poetry, drama | 2 | Dr. Bényei Tamás |
| Rákosi György | 1999 | Linguistics | 1 | Dr. Laczkó Tibor |
| Tóth Ágoston & Furkó Péter | 1997 | Linguistics | 1 | Dr. Nagy Tibor |
JUVENILIA
These volumes contain the papers of our students who have been awarded at the OTDK.
- JUVENILIA - I. (2006)
- JUVENILIA - II. (2008)
- JUVENILIA - III. (2010)
- JUVENILIA - IV. (2011)
- JUVENILIA - V. (2013)
- JUVENILIA - VI. (2015)
- JUVENILIA - VII. (2017)
- JUVENILIA - VIII. (2020)
- JUVENILIA - IX. (2021)